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Open Leadership
I like the open leadership map white paper released by the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla say: Open Leadership is the “how” of our work. It’s how we accomplish our work in ... -
Pontydysgu SL
Regular readers may know Pontydysgu have been involved in different European projects around the use of technology in education, the training of teachers and trainers and careers advice and counselling (amongst ... -
Are job algorithms good enough?
We've all made jokes about the jobs that various 'professional' social networks recommend for us. This morning I had a message from ResearchGate: LinkedIn is no better. Here are two ... -
Personal Learning Environments on Serbian TV
I don't suppose so many of the readers here speak Serbian. And that is a shame since this fantastic fulm made by Serbian TV at the conference and workshop on ... -
Are we lost in online space?
Last November I was invited to give a presentation at a conference "Are we lost in online space?" organised by in Belgrade. As the report on the conference web ... -
The problems of assessing competence
It was interesting to read Simon Reddy’s article in FE News, The Problem with Further Education and Apprenticeship Qualifications, lamenting the low standard of training in plumbing the UK and ... -
Public policy is key to the digital economy
Interesting research from Harvard Business Review who have introduced the Digital Evolution Index to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, ... -
Communities of Practice and the world of Academia
I have worked in and out of academia over the last thirty years including five years working for what used to be called Gwent Tertiary College, a large vocational education ... -
Skills on their own are not enough
I have been involved in research in Vocational Education and Training for a long time. Vocational Education and Training is a strange thing. Although always popular in the German speaking ... -
Places and Spaces – facilitating professional learning and identity transformation in European Public Employment Services
I have just submitted an abstract to the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER). This years conference is at the Free University Bolzano in Italy in September. The proposed paper ...